YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

WorkBar in Boston encourages members to “rethink the workplace,” bringing together the “professionalism of an office, flexibility of a gym, and the comfort of a cafe.” Members of WorkBar enjoy special perks, including discounts at Boston Sports Clubs, Zipcar, and Grasshopper.

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View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M of committed capital under management.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Software Review Hiring Seed Stage 257

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” (In In fact, my personal fund raising strategy is to attend the first meeting by myself. That way when my partners in are in …. there is a reason for us to re-engage because they never met that partner before.

Software Review 381

Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The words can be simple, like “I was meeting with a customer in Boston,” or “When my home was devastated by a tornado.” A memorable story needs to start with location specifics to make it real. Stories relay events, and these events have to happen somewhere. It’s even acceptable to make up a place with a “what if.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

If you need venture capital, maybe you need to spend more time in Silicon Valley or Boston. Location and luck: right place at the right time. I’m a proponent of the old adage that you make your own luck in business. I always recommend to every business professional that they have a goal, and then be willing to maneuver.

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Silicon Valley Angel Investor Technical Review Boston 325

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) When they find it, their focus on scale requires even more venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. Just in the last few years we’ve come to see that we had been building scalable startups inefficiently.

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Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. We love all of LA and fund all regions. In fact, we fund nationally and occasionally internationally.

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Los Angeles Las Vegas San Francisco Baltimore 343

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Lastly, a necessary caveat: Boston’s booming tech ecosystem means there are dozens of great service providers available to startups. Preferred Boston Startup Service Providers 2014. The post The 2nd Annual List of Go-To Boston Startup Service Providers appeared first on The View From Seed.'

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Boston Seed Stage Portfolio Cofounder 331

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), probably won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

You can usually find 2-3 investors per location but it’s not uncommon to see VCs in: Boston, NY, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. VCs need to go to 20 cities and pitch one firm in each location!” ” Well, ok, that’s an exaggeration. Louis, South Bend, Austin, Houston, and so forth.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. But a large majority of our investments are in our backyard of Boston — and, aside from our work as investors, this city is near and dear to our hearts. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values.

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Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Once you identified that What to Wear Daily was worth building, what worked in acquiring your first 100 users — especially since it was focused on just Boston to start? At the time of this writing, What to Wear Daily is available in Boston. NextView Ventures: Let’s start at the beginning. I woke up each morning at 5 a.m.

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Design Product Cofounder Boston 330

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Image via Wikipedia From the advice I hear these days, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, or one of the few other financial hubs around the world. What does that mean for the rest of us, who reside or grew up in the thousands of small towns that cover most of the landscape?

Silicon Valley 269

Silicon Valley Missouri Technical Review Boston 269

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

. Aren’t some of the recent successes in Los Angeles just emblematic of the overall long tech boom we’ve seen nationally and has led to growth in funding in NY, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco? To some extent – of course they are. But this time there really is something happening in LA. It is different. More substantive.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The benefits have been touted previously : an anchor for attracting and retaining talent in Boston, as well as a breeding ground for the next set of great Boston entrepreneurs and founders. The post The Unique but Powerful Way the HubSpot Mafia is Impacting Boston Startups appeared first on GenuineVC.'

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Boston IPO B2B Cofounder 279

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The words can be simple, like “I was meeting with a customer in Boston,” or “When my home was devastated by a tornado.” A memorable story needs to start with location specifics to make it real. Stories relay events, and these events have to happen somewhere. It’s even acceptable to make up a place with a “what if.”

Elevator Pitch 211

Elevator Pitch Technical Review Boston Sales 211

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I also made several trips to New York & Boston. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition.

China 333

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

Now we had no choice: we fired everyone, shut down our month-to-month office, sold all the office furnishings, and moved the business to our apartments in downtown Boston. Before we had a chance to figure out what to do, Mike quit, citing a need to focus on his studies. It was gut-wrenching. Dave worried about paying rent.

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Common Stock Boston Europe Software Developers 211

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I also made several trips to New York & Boston. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm. I didn’t want this to happen again – that people didn’t know me. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition.

China 328

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2024

Case Studies of Successful Curriculum Alignment Northeastern University’s Co-op Program Northeastern University in Boston has long been a pioneer in aligning education with industry needs through its Cooperative Education (co-op) program.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Analytics Software Review 163

View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Today, we are excited to re-release an updated Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech ! I wanted to point out a couple things in the updated guide, but the general theme is that we are simply seeing more, bigger, and better things happening here in Boston. Thought leadership originating in Boston. To name a few: 1.

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Boston Early Stage Artificial Inteligence Semantic 215

Agile VC

JULY 16, 2014

One of our portfolio companies, Plastiq , announced yesterday that they raised a $10M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and are planning to move their headquarters from Boston to San Francisco. Some lament the relocation of Plastiq and other companies who start in Boston but end up moving to Silicon Valley or other startup hubs.

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Boston Silicon Valley San Francisco Cofounder 208

View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

I think we’ll also see more blockbuster returns driven by companies like Chewy or Shopify that are based outside of core tech hubs, even if the investors are themselves based in SF, NY, or Boston. Firm Persistence. Getting on the Forbes Midas list is a nice milestone for an individual investor.

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Africa 313

deal architect

MAY 20, 2013

I caught a replay of Bill McDermott''s pitch at SapphireNow last week. How could you not with acronyms like B2B2C?:) Seriously, tough to not like his sports talk and see him surrounded by sports world luminaries you see.'

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Boston 281

YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

For example, Beantown looks to data analytics jobs Boston police can rely upon to determine where in the city crime occurs for officer distribution. Safety is another advantage of data analytics. Increased Data Analytics in Jobs. Bureau of Labor Statistics offers insights as to how data analytics has created new jobs.

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Analytics Software Engineering Russia Software Development 124

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Consider a Boston-based restaurant called Angelica’s. For example, if a lender learns how much, on average, 30 similarly-sized Boston restaurants pay for monthly linen rentals, they can share that information with Angelica’s to help optimize its linen expenditures. Personalization Gives SMBs a Competitive Edge.

Small Business 140

Small Business Boston Georgia Technical Review 140

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea. We would have loved to have it when we were getting started.”

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Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Built in Boston.). Joining a startup can serve many needs (get something out into the world, working closely with a small team you love, financial reward, etc.), Look for Tenacity. Get to Their True Self.

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Founder Seed Stage Cofounder Boston 120

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’m just pointing out my gut feel for approximate ranges of deals that I’ve seen with Silicon Valley having the highest valuations, NY / LA / Boston / Boulder / Seattle having valuations in a slightly lower range but comparable and sometimes significantly lower prices in markets that don’t have a healthy venture market.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location.

Silicon Valley 149

Silicon Valley Las Vegas Arizona Montana 149

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Boston, USA Oct 1st – 3rd, 2018. Boston, USA. Boston, USA. With over 40 hours of content spread across SaaStock’s three days, not to mention all of the networking events, you’ll be kept very busy indeed developing the knowledge and relationships necessary to help you reach your business goals. Business of Software.

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Las Vegas Software Review Affiliate Cofounder 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

We just finished the second year in Boston. “…and the premise for Techstars was the worst case we would attract some new smart people to Boulder.”. And how has it worked out? “It It has worked out great. So we had probably had well this is the fourth year we’ve done it in Boulder.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! Caesar enables companies to access high-quality ESG data with ease so that they can make more sustainable decisions and incorporate sustainability into each area of their business. Get to know the founder. RH: Please introduce yourself.

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DC Software Review Government Boston 156

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Old assumptions about geography are increasingly being challenged – with huge consumer wins emerging in Boston (CarGurus, Wayfair, Simplisafe, Pillpack), great B2B companies emerging in NY (Flatiron Health, Mongo, Datadog, etc), and unicorns emerging in smaller tech markets and overseas. .

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B, with most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management.

Technical Review 156

Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Gabe, Jamie and the Grove team have grown to 18 people since we backed them and they delivered their first beta product to 50 Boston Early Adopters last spring to raving reviews. But it will take time.

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Technical Review Software Review Founder Boston 150